Coin-holder



(No Model.)

F. B. WAGNER. 00m HOLDER.-

No. 571,179. 7 Patented Nov. 10, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE! FRANK B. WAGNER, or CLEVELAND, orno.

COlN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 571,179, dated November 10, 1896.

Application filed J nly 29, 1895.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK B. WAGNER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Holders, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained, and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

In the annexed drawings, Figure I represents a front view of my improved coin-holder; Fig. II, a front view of, the holder, showing the advertising-card removed to disclose the locking device for the coins; Fig. III, a top plan view of the holder; Fig. IV, a bottom plan view of the same; V, a rear view of the holder, and Fig. VI a vertical section on the line VI VI in Fig. II.

The holder consists of a series of cylindrical barrels A, each of a diameter capable of receiving a stack of coins of the denomination desired to be carried in the holder, and each barrel having its lower end closed and its upper end open.

In the holder illustrated in the drawings one end barrel is of a size to hold half-dollars, the other end barrel of a size to hold quarterdollars; one barrel holds dimes, one barrel holds five-cent nickels, and one barrel holds one-cent pieces. Each barrel has a follower a, against which the lowermost coin in the stack rests, and a spring a serves to force the follower and the stack'of coins above it upward. The forward portions of the upper edges of the barrels are cut away for about the thickness of a coin, and the openings a thus formed are separated by straight part-ition-flanges a which guide the uppermost coin in each barrel through said openings and prevent the uppermost coin in one barrel from slipping into the adjoining barrel. A top plate B covers the upper ends of the barrels, and has finger-slots I? open at their forward ends and of sufficient size to admit of the thumb or finger-being drawn over the upper end of each barrel to remove a coin.

A bar 0 is guided to slide at the front of the barrels and has a number of locking-fingers 0 upon its upper edge, which fingers project to prevent the uppermost coins from being Serial N0x 557,418. (No model.)

removed through the'guide-openin gs a of the barrels when the slide is raised. An arm 0 projects downward from the slide and has said bell-crank lever being fulcrumed upon the forward side of the barrel structure and having its downward]y-extending arm projecting through a slot a in the casing of the coin-holder, where it may be rocked to engage one of two notches a in the edge of the slot to hold the locking-slide in its raised or lowered position, the arm of the bell-crank lever, which thus forms a fin gcr-piece, having sufficient spring to be disengaged from the notches and to again spring into either one of them.

A flanged frame D is secured upon the front of the casing of the holder,and one side d of said frame is pivoted at one end, so as to be D,bearing an advertisement, other printed information, or whatever matter may be desired to display, and a transparent pane D which protects said card. The free end of the pivoted side is cut away and beveled, as at d, to fit into a similarly-shaped recess d formed by cutting away and beveling the inner side of the end of the adjoining frame side piece, the dovetail fit thus provided serving to detachably secure the free end of the movable side.

A money-receptacle A is formed in the casing of the holder to the rear of the coin-barrels, and a funnel A is formed at the top opening-into said receptacle for the purpose of freely guiding money or tokens into the receptacle. This coin-holder is principally intended to be used by street-car conductors or other persons engaged in collecting money or tokens, and for the purpose of rendering the device conveniently portable the casing is provided with earsa, to which a strap or cord may be attached for suspending the device from the neck, and two spring-tongues a are horizontally secured, each by one end, to the back" of the casing, which tongues may be inserted inside of the overlapping front of the vest or coat of the person carrying it for the purpose of preventing the holder from swinging by the persons movements and of keeping the holder conveniently presented for making change from the same.

swung out to admit of the insertion of a card one arm of a bell-crank lever O pivoted to it,

In practice, assuming the coin-holder to beused by a street-car conductor and suitably suspended, as above described, the conductor can place fares or money given him in excess of the exact fare or fares in the rear receptacle and can draw the coins sufficient for the exact change required to be returned to the passenger from the several coin-barrels, each of which has been filled with a stack of the proper coin at the beginning of the trip. As each denomination of change-coin is placed in a separate receptacle, change may be made with great ease, and one coin of each denomination will always be ready for removal.

When the holder is not in use, the lockingfingers are raised, whereby all surreptitious removal of coins by dishonest persons may be prevented without obliging the conductor to watch the holder.

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invention A coin-holder consisting of a series of coinholding barrels, A, arranged side by side and having the forward portions of their upper edges cut away to form discharge-openings a for the coins, and having partition-flanges a at their open upper ends between their adjoining sides, a top plate B secured over the open upper ends of the barrels and formed with finger-slots 1), corresponding with said barrels and having open ends over the coinopenings', spring-followers a, in the barrels, a transverse bar 0, arranged to move parallel with the longitudinal axes of the barrels and provided with locking-fingers c, projecting at the coin-openin gs, a finger-piece G, connected to move the transverse bar to project the locking-fingers across the coin or away from same,

and a receptacle A, at the rear of the barrels and provided with a funnel-shaped opening, A at its top, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing to be myin vention I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of July, A. D. 1895.

FRANK B. WVAGNER.

IVitnesses:

J. B. FAY, .I. O. TURNER. 

